Monday, July 10, 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. MDT
Location: Centennial E

Building cultures of preparedness is key to reducing social vulnerability, economic losses, and the suffering caused by disaster. Preparedness is a core training activity in schools, hospitals, businesses, and across emergency management organizations. But aging infrastructure, lack of investments, and repeated disasters can impede resilience despite these planning efforts. The panelists in this session will discuss the benefits of disaster preparedness and how communities can use pre-disaster data to inform plans, policies, and interventions. Panelists will also describe challenges that prevent moving from preparedness activities to community resilience and opportunities for engaging more diverse groups in the planning process.